Transcribe audio via API Whisper with any compatible local servers.
---
name: any-whisper-api
description: Transcribe audio via API Whisper with any compatible local servers.
homepage: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"☁️","requires":{"bins":["curl"],"env":["WHISPER_API_KEY","WHISPER_API_HOST"]}}}
---
# OpenAI Whisper API (curl)
Transcribe an audio file via OpenAI’s `/v1/audio/transcriptions` endpoint.
## Quick start
```bash
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a
```
Defaults:
- Model: `whisper-1`
- Output: `<input>.txt`
## Whisper.cpp example
/ai/whisper.cpp/build/bin/whisper-server -m /ai/models/whisper/ggml-large-v3-turbo-q8_0.bin --host 192.168.0.55 --port 5005 -sow --vad --vad-model /ai/models/whisper/ggml-silero-v6.2.0.bin --inference-path /v1/audio/transcriptions
## Useful flags
```bash
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.ogg --model whisper-1 --out /tmp/transcript.txt
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --language en
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --prompt "Speaker names: Peter, Daniel"
{baseDir}/scripts/transcribe.sh /path/to/audio.m4a --json --out /tmp/transcript.json
```
## API key
Set `WHISPER_API_KEY` and `WHISPER_API_HOST`, or configure it in `~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json`:
```json5
{
skills: {
"openai-whisper-api": {
apiKey: "WHISPER_API_KEY_HERE",
apiHost: "WHISPER_API_HOST_HERE"
}
}
}
```
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